GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What vital word is usually left off the phrase “innocent until proven guilty”? (8)

7/8 Whose Late Show debuted on US TV in 1982? (5,9)

9 Pumpernickel contains what cereal? (3)

10 Who is the captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick? (4)

11 Which of the seven dwarfs may have need of an antihistamine? (6)

13 What was discovered by both Joseph Priestley and Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774? (6) 14 What creature is the main baddy in The Wind in the Willows? (6)

17 What loose brightly coloured dress is worn by women in Hawaii? (6)

18 What stick with a hook is used for landing fish? (4)

20 What word for a field is used poetically? (3) 22 What is the tiny republic on the Italian peninsula not far from the resort town of Rimini? (3,6)

23 When she became a Spice Girl, what nickname did Melanie Brown adopt? (5)

24 Tea comes from a shrub of which genus? (8)

DOWN

5/2 1 A schottische resembles a slow what? (5)

2 What is the tidal mouth of a large river? (7)

3 The iris is part of what pigmented layer of the eye? (4)

4 What is a stoat in its white winter coat? (6)

5 A hanko, a personal name seal in Japan, is invariably made of what? (5)

6 Which glands are near your kidneys? (7)

7 What river rises west of Moscow and flows 2200km to the Black Sea? (7)

12 Which French composer’s 1905 La Mer helped usher in the modern era of classical music? (7)

13 What is a free-standing pillar tapering to a pyramidal top? (7)

15 A dog of what breed was named after King Charles I? (7)

16 Which old coin was worth 21 shillings? (6) 17 The word bamboo originated from what language? (5)

19 What is the plant life of a region? (5)

21 Which UK ceramics company established in 1810 is best known for its collectible figurines? (4)